Your phone number gets blocked as "SPAM" nowadays.

And if evaluating certain passive 1031 opportunities for replacements you'll probably want to access a broker/dealer or a commercial realtor for commercial opportunities.Most of these folks are vey willing to consult with you at no charge and trust you'll later use their services to perform their assigned tasks.

REI is sexy again, so more people want to do it and we all have access to basically the same information, chasing the same limited inventory. 

Inspector could also not access attic space to verify quality of sheathing and venting.

@Marc Jackson what would you call the average performance (gross income and net income) from a PCB Townhome within say 5 blocks of the water?

They are building a new town center at the corner of my block (literally) with over 1300 new apartment units, 250k sq ft of office, and retail space.

How active or passive do you want to be, how you're accessing capital & credit, how you're going to build deal flow, etc.

(I.E. duplex, single-family, apartments, etc)Do you have access to Private money?

Most agents are just using access to the MLS as their main strength and don't really work to market and sell your property.

Start saving as well and spend every free minute you have on MLS or even realtor.com and Zillow if you don't have access and start learning, seeing what the market has to offer.